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ATTORNEY United States Patent Ofiice 3,176,677 Patented Apr. 6, 1965 3,176,677 GAS RANGE George McArthur, In, Delaware County, Ohio, assiguor to The Sunray Stove Company, Delaware, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Filed Feb. 20, 1961, Ser. No. 90,263 4 Claims. (Cl. 126-37) The inventions disclosed in this application relate to gas ranges for cooking and are illustrated by a gas range constructed according to my invention. The disclosure relates especially to a type of gas range having several burners with a hinged cooking top above said burners.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a gas range with a recess in the top portion into which a hinged cooking top with openings for the several top burners, is fitted.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a cooking top which may be pivotally raised or wholly removed.

A further object of my invention is to provide a range styled to stand by itself as a unit and be of pleasing appearance and/ or alternatively to slide in between cabinets which provide a self supporting built-in range.

Features of my invention include the provision of an integral flange of extruded metal section which forms the sides and front rim of the range. Features also include an L-shaped arrangement of the burners.

Further objects and features of the invention will be apparent from a consideration of the following description taken together with the accompanying drawings illustrating an embodiment of my invention.

In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a View in perspective of a gas range constructed according to my invention, positioned between two cabinet members so that the range forms a built-in unit together with the cabinet members;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of fragments of the top rail which surrounds the main body of the range and which blends and cooperates with the side cabinets so as to maintain a unitary appearance of the entire assembly;

FIG. 3 is a view in perspective of a fragmentary portion of the cooking top shown associated with the projecting rod-like members by which the top is pivotally, but securely, fastened to the main body of the range;

FIG. 4 is a view in perspective of a fragment of the cooking top similar to FIG. 3 but showing the cooking top pivoted as it is being lifted so that access may be had to the burners and the main body of the range so that such burners and the top of the main body may be conveniently cleaned;

FIG. 5 is a view similar to FIGS. 3 and 4 being a fragmentary perspective view of the cooking top shown associated with the rod-like projections but having been removed from contact with the rod-like projections in the removal of the top cover; and

FIG. 6 is a view in front elevation of the range of FIG. 1 shown on a smaller scale and showing the pivoted cover removed.

Referring still to the drawings, it may be seen that I have shown in FIGS. 1 and 6 a gas range 11 having a main body 12 formed with a recess in the top as at 13 and associated with a pair of side cabinets l4 and 15. As shown in FIG. 6 the main body 12 is formed with side walls 16 and i7 and a back wall 13 extending above the burner base and thus forming the recess 13. As shown also in FIG. 6, the side walls are each provided with a pair of inwardly extending rod-like projections within the recess for purposes later to be explained. Within the recess 13 at the burner base 16, there are provided a plurality of burners, such as the burners 21, 22, 23 and 24.

Normally as is shown in FIG. 1, these burners are covered by the cooking top 31 which is provided with a plurality of holes (through which the burners may be viewed and through which the flames extend upward) such as the holes 32, 33, 34 and 35, each aligned with one of the burners 21, 22, 23 and 24. As may be seen, the cooking top 31 is fitted within the recess 13 and is itself recessed below the frame and also below the counter height of the cabinets 14 and 15.

The recess 13 is provided with a frame 40 consisting of a rear rail and a forward rail. The rear rail is designated 41 and the forward rail being generally designated 42. The forward rail is a unitary extrusion and is of substantially a U-shape (horizontally) having two side rail portions 43 and 44 and a front rail portion 45. The front rail portion 45is also U-shaped (vertically) and has two downwardly extending legs 46 and 47 and a horizontally extending lower connecting portion 48.

The frame 40, as shown in FIG. 2, surrounds the recess in the body portion and the cooking top is arranged to pivot therein. The cooking top is provided with a pair of slots 51 and 52 into which the rod-like extensions 19 and 29 are designed to fit. Similar slots are provided on the opposite sides of the top 31 for the extensions 1% and 29a.

The frame portions 41 and 42 are preferably formed as extrusions although they may be stamped or rolled sections. As shown in FIG. 2 the two portions of the illustrated embodiment are each a unitary extruded section of appropriate metal. The rear section '41 is a slightly different extrusion from the forward section 42 and is formed substantially as a combined inverted U and T shape in cross section as may be seen at 61. That is, one leg of the inverted U is also combined with the connection between the legs to form a T-section so that there is a flange 62 extending rearwardly. The cross section of the side and front portions of the rail is similar as appears at 63 where are shown the two legs @4- and 65 and the outwardly extending flange 66. However, this section is also provided with internal ledges 67 and 58. The flange 66 is removed from the front rail portion 45 of the forward rail 42 terminating at approximately. the point 67. Within the U of the side rails 43 and 44 there is provided a steel Z-shaped insert 70 which aids in strengthening the rails and also provides a base by which the rail portions are secured to the main portion of the range as by bolts.

Although the side rails 43 and 44 have flanges which overlay and blend with the side cabinets l4 and 15, and the rear rail 41 may cooperate with a rear wall, none of these flanges are attached to the wall or cabinets and when desired the cooking range may be easily removed and, if desired, serviced and replaced without the necessity of removing bolts or attaching.

The operation of the device will be clear. The corners of the extrusion 42 are notched out as at 71 and 72, 73 and 74, and the extrusion is bent so as to form the appropriate angles. The rails are secured to the main body of the stove by suitable bolts secured to the 2 member 70. The rails 41 and 42 are secured to each other as v at 69 by appropriate fasteners such as bolts. When it is desired to clean or service the top of the stove, the cooking top 31 may be raised by tipping the forward end thereof upward and so that the cover pivots about the projections 19 and 19a. If it is desired to remove the cover entirely, the cover is first tipped upward and then it is removed as shown in FIG. 5 so that the burners and the top of the main body can be deeply reached and cleaned.

It is to be understood that the above described embodiments of my invention are for the purpose of illustration only and various changes may be made therein {3 without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim:

1. A gas range comprising a main body, the main body having upstanding side walls and an upstanding back wall and having a recess formed between said side and back Walls and having burners positioned in said recess; rod-like projections in said recesses extending inward from said side walls and said main-body being provided with a frame surrounding the edge of the recess; and a pivoted cooking top above said burners fitting snugly in said frame and having openings for access to said burners and also having a pair of horizontal openings embracing said projections whereon the cooking top is pivoted whereby the cooking top may be pivoted upward by pivoting about said projections.

2. A gas range comprising a main body, the main body having upstanding side walls and an upstanding back wall and having a recess formed between said side walls and said back wall;

burners positioned in said recess;

rod-like projections in said recess, two extending inward from each of said side walls, one of said projections from one side wall being aligned longitudinally with one of the projections from the other side wall to form a pair of aligned projections, and the other projection from the aforesaid first side wall being aligned longitudinally with the other projection from the aforesaid second side wall to form another pair of aligned projections;

and a pivoted cooking top, above said burners, provided with openings for access to said burners and also provided with two pairs of slots embracing said projections, the top being arranged to be pivoted about a pair of said aligned projections, and one pair of slots being substantially vertically extending when the top is lowered and the other pair of slots being substantially horizontally extending when the top is lowered, whereby the cooking top may be raised by pivoting about said pair of projections, each slot of the two pairs of slots in the cooking top embracing one of the rod-like projections from the side walls when the cooking top is lowered whereby the cooking top is held against horizontal movement when lowered, but nevertheless may be raised by pivoting about said one pair of said aligned projections to disengage the. cooking top from the other pair of projections and whereby the cooking top when so disengaged may be removed by a sliding movement of the associated pair of slots from association with said projections about which the cooking top has been pivoted.

3. The structure of claim 2 in which the slots in the cooking top consist of aforward pair of slots and a rearward pair of slots, in which the forward pair of slots extend vertically of the cooking top and the rearward pair of slots extend horizontally thereof and in which the cooking top is secured by said vertical slots against sliding movement when lowered, but nevertheless may be raised by pivoting upward about the engagement of the horizontally extending slots with the associated pair of projections and when pivoted upward may be removed by sliding movement of the horizontally extending pair of slots from association with their associated pair of projections.

4. A gas range comprising a main body, the main body having upstanding side walls and an upstanding back wall and having a recess formed between said side and back walls;

burners positioned in said recess;

a pair of rod-like projections in said recess extending inward from said side walls, a projection from each sidewall being aligned with a projection from the opposite wall to form a pair of aligned projections; and a pivoted cooking top above said burners having openings for access to said burners and also having slotted openings embracing said pair of said aligned projections whereon the cooking top is pivoted and whereby the cooking top may be pivoted upward by pivoting about said aligned projections.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 968,942 8/10 Hartig et al. 126-39 2,019,045 10/35 Chafee 126-37 2,037,828 4/36 Sherman 126-39 2,107,972 2/38 Antrim et al. 126-39 2,364,950 12/44 Cook 126-37 3,044,459 7/62 Brown 126-39 3,051,160 8/62 Nielsen 126-37 FOREIGN PATENTS 399,257 10/33 Great Britain.

JAMES W. WESTHAVER, Primary Examiner.

FREDERICK L. MATTESON, JR., PERCY L. PAT- RICK, Examiners. 

1. A GAS RANGE COMPRISING A MAIN BODY, THE MAIN BODY HAVING UPSTANDING SIDE WALLS AND AN UPSTANDING BACK WALL AND HAVING A RECESS FORMED BETWEEN SAID SIDE AND BACK WALLS AND HAVING BURNERS POSITIONED IN SAID RECESS; ROD-LIKE PROJECTIONS IN SAID RECESS EXTENDING INWARD FROM SAID SIDE WALLS AND SAID MAIN BODY BEING PROVIDED WITH A FRAME SURROUNDING THE EDGE OF THE RECESS; AND A PIVOTED COOKING TOP ABOVE SAID BURNERS FITTING SNUGLY IN SAID FRAME AND HAVING OPENINGS FOR ACCESS TO SAID BURNERS AND ALSO HAVING A PAIR OF HORIZONTAL OPENINGS EMBRACING SAID PROJECTIONS WHEREON THE COOKING TOP IS PIVOTED WHEREBY THE COOKING TOP MAY BE PIVOTED UPWARD BY PIVOTING ABOUT SAID PROJECTIONS. 